Pirate technologies: how scarce spare parts are produced in Russia
- March 6, 2023
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The situation with the repair and maintenance of Russia’s huge and diverse fleet of vehicles is still dire: for some models it is difficult to find even the
The situation with the repair and maintenance of Russia’s huge and diverse fleet of vehicles is still dire: for some models it is difficult to find even the spare parts necessary for simple maintenance, but it is not even worth worrying about repair and restoration talk. However, the problem has a simple solution, which looks quite justified in today’s world: reverse engineering. What is it, tells the portal “AvtoVzglyad”.
There are currently no new cars available in Russia. And even a gradual exit to AvtoVAZ’s pre-war capabilities will not solve this problem – the market is in a serious deficit, which, in fact, leads to high prices. Dealers earn because no one can dictate terms to them, and people continue to slowly “eat up” the secondary market, which, by the way, is not endless either.
Many big words were said about the efforts to fill Russia with new cars, and the “things” moved from their places – the first batch of Iranian cars was bought, the Chinese Kaiyi is about to appear in the dealerships. But the issue of maintenance is still acute: with what and how to repair old “cars”, which, as market research shows, will become the main vehicle for Russians in the near future? The government previously proposed a not very obvious and even embarrassing, but extremely effective solution, which is actively used in China, for example.
Usually the term “reverse engineering” was only mentioned in relation to the Middle Kingdom, as it basically involves stealing technology by dissecting, digitizing and then producing non-copyrighted components. That is, we buy a filter, disassemble it, look at what is inside, make an analogue, produce and sell it. The same goes for complex units, electrical units, and so on.
Pure piracy, only elevated to a global level. In another situation it is a reprehensible and even a criminal act, but now that the “copyright holders” broke contracts and refused to provide an already paid service – no credit in honor either – there is simply no other way out.
And if you can’t stop it, you have to lead. Quite recently, the news about the implementation in Novosibirsk of a project of a powerful three-dimensional printer, which allows you to create a detailed digital model of any complex object in a matter of hours, went unnoticed. For example spare parts. Subsequently, the already digitized part is sent for calculation and a test production is prepared. Creating a “test line” takes weeks, not years, as in the case of developing from scratch. The same Chinese know how to do it in a few days in general.
In Russia, there are enough enterprises, both large, urban and medium-sized ones, capable of producing the components and assemblies that the Russian car owner needs. The biggest stumbling block is copyright, which today is not only pointless, but also harmful. Now we must think of ourselves and our own people, and not of happy days when everyone was talking about the law. Moreover, such an approach, in combination with a cluster for recovery of components and assemblies, the implementation of which has already been mentioned by the AvtoVzglyad portal, will solve an urgent need not for days, but for months. And then it becomes visible.
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There are currently no new cars available in Russia. And even a gradual exit to AvtoVAZ’s pre-war capabilities will not solve this problem – the market is in a serious deficit, which, in fact, leads to high prices. Dealers earn because no one can dictate terms to them, and people continue to slowly “eat up” the secondary market, which, by the way, is not endless either.
Many big words were said about the efforts to fill Russia with new cars, and the “things” moved from their places – the first batch of Iranian cars was bought, the Chinese Kaiyi is about to appear in the dealerships. But the issue of maintenance is still acute: with what and how to repair old “cars”, which, as market research shows, will become the main vehicle for Russians in the near future? The government previously proposed a not very obvious and even embarrassing, but extremely effective solution, which is actively used in China, for example.
Usually the term “reverse engineering” was only mentioned in connection with the Middle Kingdom, as it basically involves stealing technology by dissecting, digitizing and then producing non-copyrighted components. That is, we buy a filter, disassemble it, look at what is inside, make an analogue, produce and sell it. The same goes for complex units, electrical units, and so on.
Pure piracy, only elevated to a global level. In another situation it is a reprehensible and even a criminal act, but now that the “copyright holders” broke contracts and refused to provide an already paid service – no honor in honor either – there is simply no other way out.
And if you can’t stop it, you have to lead. Quite recently, the news about the implementation in Novosibirsk of a project of a powerful three-dimensional printer, which allows you to create a detailed digital model of any complex object in a matter of hours, went unnoticed. For example spare parts. Subsequently, the already digitized part is sent for calculation and a test production is prepared. Creating a “test line” takes weeks, not years, as in the case of developing from scratch. The same Chinese know how to do it in a few days in general.
In Russia, there are enough enterprises, both large, urban and medium-sized ones, capable of producing the components and assemblies that the Russian car owner needs. The biggest stumbling block is copyright, which today is not only pointless, but also harmful. Now we must think of ourselves and our own people, and not of happy days when everyone was talking about the law. Moreover, such an approach, in combination with a cluster for recovery of components and assemblies, the implementation of which has already been mentioned by the AvtoVzglyad portal, will solve an urgent need not for days, but for months. And then it becomes visible.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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